Prize & Joy Book Club: THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding at Yardstick Books

The Prize & Joy Book Club is held on the last Sunday of every month, 1vpm at Yardstick.  The Club reads books or authors that have been awarded a prize by prestigious organizations, including, but not exclusively, the Pulitzer, the Booker Prize, the Booker International, the National Book Award Book, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Book club books are 15% off at Yardstick!

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding

One of Barack Obama’s 15 favorite books of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 • An NPR 2023 “Book We Love” Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 • One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of the New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 • A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023

“A testament of love.” —Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review